Mediaprint utilizes ADAudit Plus to ensure a seamless transition from Novell eDirectory to Active Directory

Business challenges

• Visibility in the migration process: Mediaprint required a solution that could monitor, track, and audit directory changes throughout the organization's directory migration process, ensuring accuracy and security.
• Change auditing: Tracking group membership changes, user creation and deletion, DNS record modifications, and Group Policy (GPO) changes was a key requirement for the organization.

The problem

According to Metin Coban, the system administrator at Mediaprint, the organization's IT team faced challenges in migrating from Novell eDirectory to Active Directory while maintaining full visibility into critical changes.

Additionally, the lack of in-depth, real-time auditing made it difficult to track who made changes, when they were made, and what was modified. The organization needed an efficient auditing solution that could provide detailed, structured reports on AD activity without requiring extensive query language knowledge.

The solution

Mediaprint implemented ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, which provided real-time tracking and auditing of Active Directory changes throughout the migration process. The solution monitored key AD objects, including group membership modifications, user account creation/deletion, DNS record changes, and GPO modifications, ensuring a secure and well-documented transition. Coban expressed his excitement with what ADAudit Plus' capabilities could do to his organization, noting that the "change auditing for Active Directory was a killer feature during this migration process.”

ADAudit Plus also simplified compliance and reporting, allowing the IT team to generate detailed audit logs without requiring them to implement complex PowerShell scripts: “We achieved great results without needing any knowledge of query languages,” Coban noted.

Mediaprint also appreciated ManageEngine’s responsive support, even though their engagement with the team was minimal. “But whenever we did, our questions were resolved quickly,” Coban stated. He concluded, “ADAudit Plus is a great product with the best price-to-capabilities ratio in the market."

About ADAudit Plus

ADAudit Plus is a real-time Active Directory change auditing solution that features file and folder monitoring, plus access and permission change capabilities. With more than 200 event-specific reports and real-time email alerts, it provides in-depth knowledge about changes made to both the content and configurations of Active Directory, Azure AD, and Windows servers. Additionally, ADAudit Plus provides thorough insights on workstation and file server access (including NetApp and EMC). For more information about ADAudit Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/active-directory-audit/.